http://news.squeak.org/2015/05/12/cool-interesting-wait-is-that-scratch/ 

:)

Ron

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[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Bert
Freudenberg
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 2:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] C.H.I.P. comes pre-loaded with Scratch 


> On 12.05.2015, at 19:11, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12-05-2015, at 5:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> 
>> Newsworthy?
>> 
>>
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-comp
uter
> 
> It *could* be an interesting thing, but there appear to be some problems.
> For example, it only has a composite video out, so a fairly expensive
adaptor is need to use any likely monitor. Not an issue of course for
headless usage. Except they are touting the uses as a desktop machine - hey,
even Scratch, wonder if they've adopted my improved version - which sort of
needs a monitor. And the shipping is *$20*. And it only has half as much
memory as a Pi, which apparently was a totally killer problem for the Pi
until the Pi 2 came out. And open source bigots^H^H^H^H^Hafficionados are
complaining about the use of an AllWinner soc.
> On the other hand it has wi-fi & BT included. 
> 
> As an IoT platform it seems like it would have a good place in the world,
if the shipping didn't make it essentially as expensive as a Pi but without
the backup, community and educational raison.

Whatever its flaws, it's yet another platform shipping Squeak by default, so
I thought that we might capitalize on that while it's in the news.

- Bert -